...companions in this voyage. The skipper and crew were as usual the masters ; and the pilots, both whites, and both of Dutch extraction, an old wrinkled negro,...shades of the virgin forest, to admit the warmth of the tun; and culture and abundance have been spread where the beast of the forest so lately roamed, hunted...

...would be a bold woman who would think now of waving a handkerchief to a Hudson river (team-boat ! — EDITOR. and both of Dutch extraction, an old wrinkled...civilization in their train, instead of havoc and desolation. Mora than a million of square miles of territory* have been opened up from the shades of the virgin...

...were evidently of the class of husbandme... Their packs were lying in a pile, near the fo, ' of tho mast, and I did not fail to observe that there were...than the sword of any warlike people that ever lived; hut they have been conquests that have left civilization in their train instead of havoc and desolation....

...that he is - he can write as though he had never heard Natty Bumppo's words, much less penned them: The American axe. It has made more real and lasting...instead of havoc and desolation. More than a million square miles of territory have been opened up from the shade of the virgin forest, to admit the warmth...

...conférence reprend l'idée et les termes même du panégyrique dû à la plume de James Fenimore Cooper: «The American axe! It has made more real and lasting...civilization in their train instead of havoc and desolation. » (JF Cooper, The Chainbearer, or the Littlepage Manuscripts, p. 85.) La possibilité d'une influence...

...instance, the ax in James Fenimore Cooper's The Chainbearer (1845), which exalts "the American axe [which] has made more real and lasting conquests than the sword of any warlike people," or Mark Twain's utilitarian machinery of the contemporary late nineteenth century, say, the armaments...

...With these he has no fears and sets merrily forward in his attack upon the wilderness. —Basil Hall' The American axe! It has made more real and lasting...civilization in their train instead of havoc and desolation. —James Fenimore Cooper 2 When nineteenth-century Americans imagined the settlement of their nation,...

...Nye, four acts. The first act is the narrative of the axe. James Fenimore Cooper famously exclaimed: The American axe! It has made more real and lasting...civilization in their train instead of havoc and desolation. 6 Or as Timothy Walker put it in the North American Review in 1831: Where she [nature] denied us rivers,...